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Comment by andyf

This is a gnome NPC that wanders around Dalaran. Not currently interactable or attackable.

Comment by doomi92y

during his stroll, he enters the engineer shop and purchases some schematics from the grand master engineer.

Comment by Kuja

he's also a leatherworker, saw him purchasing new skills from the trainer. haven't seen many lw magi around :P

Comment by lordkarthas

He also goes into the wand shop.

Comment by Krakatau

...and enters Jedidah's mining shop and shows a magic trick.

Comment by Magaso

3 Professions? He's....Amazing!

Comment by Rottin

not sure but he may be related to the achievement "higher learning".

The book The Schools of Arcane Magic - Transmutation was in the Legerdemain Lodge on the bookshelf. It remained there until The Amazing Zanzo entered the Lodge and walked past the bookcase to the table. Then the book despawned.

Comment by TheNacho

This is one of the 'player' NPCs located in Dalaran that walk about the streets casting spells related to their class and minding their own business, walking into shops etc.

Comment by Yggdrassil

I saw him dissappear in the guildbank on the northern wall in Dalaran's Merchants Bank.

Comment by Dieoxide

"The Amazing" title is usually what magicians use ... magicians first starting out I think

Comment by Dracmus

They should totally have him walk up to the guild bank and say something like

"im in ur guild bank""steelin ur shardz"

Comment by Aestu

He's Just. That. Amazing.

He is wearing full mage T6 and using The Nexus Key.

Comment by llilen

Reference to "The Amazing Rando" from the MST3k movie, "Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie - This Island Earth."

Comment by Ohnok

Part of the "Player-like" NPC that sporadically roam Dalarn. There are 20 total, one for every class and faction. If you're looking for these guys it helps to turn on "NPC nameplates" because they are all flagged for PvP.

Comment by truckman1

Comment by XxScaryDuckxX

Well, he does in Beta and will hopefully continue to teach it when it goes live.

Comment by soadrokr

saw him in dalaran today after patch 4.0.3, I was able to interact with him like he is a trainer but he didnt have anything to teach, perhaps something trainable being added in cata?

Comment by ThetaSigma

He must be on some sort of spawn timer because I can't find him -anywhere- in Dalaran.

Comment by dephekt

Pretty certain he has a respawn and despawn timer. Using the following macro, i flew circles around dalaran on my first loop, i found him but he despawned before i was quick enough to fly to him and purchased piggymorph. Been flying around spamming the macro for 30 mins now and haven't seen him since.

/tar The Amazing/script SetRaidTarget("target", 8)

Comment by Lutenantj

an amazing magi with a not so amazing spawn timer =(

Comment by vegetamaker

Respawn time is about 40 minutes and if he respawn near the alliance bank he will be avaiable only few seconds, be ready for click him!

Comment by Beckitha

Will there only be only one of these up at any given time?

Comment by mrfireball

Appeared in the tailor shop for me, trained something from the guy that's standing by the stairs that gives the patterns for the cloaks that require exploring achieves.

Comment by Falcorian

He spawned at 17:22 server time on the corner by the blacksmith shop. At 17:25 he walked to the leather working trainer. At 17:26 he left and walked to The Legerdemain Lounge where he despawned as soon as he got to the bar at 17:27:30.

Comment by nehima123

Arg. Just missed him today as he despawned in front of the Guild Bank in the Merchant's Bank. Server time 2:11, coords: 42.1, 75.6. Boooooo. I'll get him next time. Oink.

Comment by dyrabyra

i did learned the pigmorph today and he was at ally guild bank

Comment by Edoralf

Just a thought, no need to jump down my throat.

Comment by Mairin

You can add 32712 to your NPCScan and it'll pick him up at a fair distance.

Comment by forbjok

Just bumped into this guy outside the Dalaran bank on my mage, and found that interestingly he teaches a second Polymorph spell that isn't present on other Mage trainers.

Comment by mcomommy

You sir, saved me clicking like a fiend for 5 mins. After reading your post, immediatly added Zanzo (wouldn't have thought to otherwise!). Just a few minutes after adding him to npcscan, he popped up right next to the alli bank and kindly taught me piggymorph. ^.^ Less than 2 minutes later, after having visited the Militant Mystic for a new wand, he despawned by the alli guild vault.

Comment by olania

I was riding in circles in Dalaran looking for him. Came here to see if there was anything special about his spawn cycle. Tabbed back into the game and he was walking past me.

Woo! Piggymorph!

Comment by benlapoint

Been searchin' for this guy the last couple of days w/o any luck so far. The thing that urks me is that I learned of the alternate polymorph from my girlfriend who had NO idea he was a random spawn and just happened to stumble upon him to get the spell. Go figure for total luck.

...and as I was typing this I f---ing missed him, dammit. So much for the NPC scan I just downloaded alerting me with the bells and whistles that didn't go off!

Well, no sooner did I get finished typing my ill-fate than to be pleasantly surprised as he re-spawned at the Alliance bank. Found him using a simple "/target The Amazing" macro, so, maybe I didn't use the NPC scan right, but it seems basic methods won the day. Got him to sell me the spell and now my search is over. All this posting and reposting took about 5-7 mins so who knows what your luck will be. Happy hunting to any who have yet to find him.

Comment by Pypode

I just learned Pig Polymorph from Zanzo today, in front of Alliance bank.

Comment by Aberlour

Today, after /target The Amazing , losing him 3 times while not understanding he could be ìnside one of the shops in the spotted locations, I found him again, with the target macro (took me well over 45 minutes mind you) walking the stairs of the dalaran alliance bank.Also managed to delay him a bit so a fellow mage could be summoned (love it when the guild hits 25) and learn the piggy spell :).

Thanks for the tip to crate a macro :)

Just posting to confirm that with the current patch (4.2.0) this still exists.

Aberlour

*eddited to add my gratitude

Comment by Talory

I just learned the piggie poly from him on a Horde mage. I'm fairly certain that pre-Cataclysm I'd noted him to be "red" to me. I'm not sure if he turned green because I'm a mage or because he's green to everyone now, but I read other posts on here that refer to him as Alliance so I thought I'd post that I got the poly from him as Horde. I found him just outside the Alliance-side bank, the Dalaran Merchant's Bank, by the way. I'd hit ctrl-v to turn on nameplates and found the little guy about to wander into The Militant Mystic shop.

Comment by CleonanTehGnome

Zanzo and Juwanamana are the only mage trainers who can train Polymorph: Pig.

Comment by bogmore

Using NPCScan worked for me, he spawned next to the mailbox outside the Alliance bank, a few others spawn there as well.

You need to be level 60 to Learn it.

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Comment by Haydin

Well i have been in Dal for about 9hrs and still have yet to see him. I have him on NPC scan. fingers crossed. i will post more info when i can

Comment by phreakin

After about 15 minutes of searching, and a helpful target macro, I found Zanzo coming out of the north bank in Dalaran. So yes, he's still around but spawns randomly and takes a bit to find.

Comment by Gadoink4

The Great and Powerful Zanzo! ...wait, no...

Comment by DrTuesday

Just a tip: If you once had Polymorph: Pig, you don't need it again.

I had done the Archmage quest for the spell in WotLK, but couldn't find it in my spellbook, so I looked for this guy. I really wanted the Polymorph Pig, so I kept looking, after about an hour. Finally, after spam hitting the macro of /tar The Amazing Zanzo I found him!... I already learned the spell.

Comment by elionor

ok update this guy is still available as of the day of this post he like his pals pats the city and teaches the pig polymorph he seems to spawns does his route then despawns however he is polite enough to stand in 1 place while you talk to him and to my knowledge wont despawn while you talking to him but like all npcs in game his chat window will only remain open for a limited time before he starts moving again there is also an unspecified CD between each spawn i like many posters below found entering militant mystic the store right outside the merchant bank (alliance bank) so if you stay on the aforementioned bank steps you are almost guarantee to run into to him however for me npcscan did not alert me when i found him (it did cache him but no alert sound) so in order to make sure you do not miss you have sit there with your eyes pressed on the screen what did help me was to turn on name plates (ctrl V) sitting there you will see allot of the other npcs walking around but to my knowledge non of them actually give or do anything worth while for you

Comment by Pyregelys

One out of 20 different class and race-specific NPCs that spawns in Dalaran. They are on a spawn timer of around 30-50 minutes.Here's a list of them all:

Comment by Lactox

Just to confirm for all those mages out there, he does still sell the polymorph to turn your enemies into adorable piggies.

I bought it today - appears the respawn timer is quite quick. Within four minutes of one of the other random NPCs despawning he appeared. Not sure if I was lucky in that respect.

Seems they hang around for approx four minutes as after I had purchased the spell and waited, the next random NPC showed up and he despawned.

Hope this helps as most of the older comments indicated the NPCS took about 15-20 minutes to arrive.

Comment by Gaviscon69

@Lactox

Confirmed for Horde as well. I thought he might be red like all the other Alliance NPC's but he shows up green for us. Found him just now and got it. He appears approximately every 30 minutes for 5 minutes max.

Also just to help a brother out: (this is a spammable macro to find him)

Comment by Gaviscon69

Comment by Tytrianna

Just found him outside of the southern bank in Dalaran. I spotted him about 10 minutes prior using a /target macro, but he despawned before I was able to reach him. The respawn timer seems to be very fast! I paid 2g 85s on my level 98 Human Mage. Yay pig polymorph!

Comment by Edoll

In 7.1 he teaches Arcane Momentum so mages can blink based on direction!